Empowered By Claudia
Welcome to the Empowered by Claudia Podcast.
I am Claudia, a registered nurse and certified coach with twenty years of experience supporting people through overwhelm, burnout, identity shifts and emotional fatigue. This podcast is a calm space for anyone who no longer feels like themselves and wants gentle guidance back to who they truly are.
Each episode offers grounded emotional support, compassionate truth telling and practical tools that help you feel clearer, steadier and more at home in your own life. We explore self compassion, identity, nervous system care and life beyond survival, all through a warm and human lens.
If you feel stretched thin, guilty for not coping better, or unsure who you are becoming, you are not alone. You deserve less guilt, less pressure and more of the real you.
What you will find here:
• Support that helps you understand you are not broken
• Gentle guidance that brings clarity and grounding
• Practical tools that reduce overwhelm and emotional pressure
• Conversations that help you reconnect with yourself
• A steady voice that reminds you that you deserve care too
If you are ready to feel more like yourself again, you can explore ways to work with me at www.claudiasabinawellness.com or through the links in the show notes.
If this podcast supports you, please subscribe, leave a review or share it with someone who needs a moment of calm and clarity.
You deserve to feel like yourself again.
I am glad you are here.
Episodes
54 episodes
55. You Don't Have To Be Positive: Making Space for All Your Emotions
In this episode, I share a very real moment from my own life where I was not feeling “okay” and had no energy to force positivity. Instead of pushing through, I explore what it looks like to actually work with your emotions rather than against ...
54. When Everything Feels Hard: Simple Things That Help
When life feels overwhelming, it can be easy to assume everything is going wrong or out of control. In this episode, I explore how to navigate those moments without forcing positivity or ignoring how you feel.Instead of pushing through o...
53. Beyond the Tick-Box: Meaningful Wellbeing Support at Work
Introduction: In this episode, Claudia is joined by Lisa, a Band 7 leader and clinical research nurse, to discuss the findings of her Master’s research into the barriers to staff accessing wellbeing services. They explore the gap ...
52. Ready or Not: Start Before You Feel Ready
In this episode, Claudia explores what it really means to take action when you do not feel ready.We often wait for certainty, confidence, or the “right time” before we begin. But in reality, readiness is rarely something we feel in advan...
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51. Confidence in your clothes: Feeling good at any size and every stage of life
What if confidence in your clothes had nothing to do with your size… and everything to do with how you see yourself?In this episode, I’m joined by personal stylist Sarah van Dort for a refreshing and honest conversation about styl...
50. The Power of Choice: Leaving, Staying and Trusting Yourself Again
Episode 50: The Power of Choice: Leaving, Staying, and Trusting Yourself AgainIn this deeply honest and reflective milestone episode, Claudia explores one of the most difficult and emotionally charged questions we face in life:
49. You Deserve to Rest: Release Guilt and Calm Your Nervous System
Why does rest feel so hard, even when you are exhausted?If you have ever found yourself thinking, “Why can’t I just relax?” or lying in bed feeling wired but tired, this episode is for you.In this episode I explore why re...
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48. Looking Fine on the Outside: Navigating Invisible Illness and Burnout
Episode 48: Looking Fine on the Outside: Navigating Invisible Illness and BurnoutIn this episode of Empowered by Claudia, we explore the reality behind invisible illness, hidden struggles, and the exhaustion that often go...
47. The Retreat Within: How to Create Your Own Peace
In this episode of Empowered by Claudia, we explore how to create your own personal retreat... a space of calm and peace you can return to whenever life feels overwhelming. Claudia reflects on the constant stream of news, social...
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46. Overwhelmed and Mind Full: How to Find Calm in the Chaos
Do you ever feel like your brain is full of half formed thoughts and endless to dos and no matter how hard you try you cannot switch off? In this episode Claudia explores what it really means to have a full mind and how you can find calm even w...
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45: When Fear Meets Hope: How to Escape Doubt
When Fear Meets Hope: Escaping Doubt Without Shrinking Your GoalsWhat do you do when the people closest to you cannot see your goals yet?In this episode of Empowered by Claudia, Claudia explores how other people’s ...
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44. Your Why Is Everything: Staying motivated when life gets messy
Episode 44: Your Why Is Everything: Staying Motivated When Life Gets MessyIn this episode of Empowered by Claudia, Claudia explores why staying motivated is not about discipline or perfect routines, but about connecting deeply to ...
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43: From Belief to Reality: Making Your Goals Feel Possible
In this episode of Empowered by Claudia, Claudia explores why some goals feel achievable while others feel out of reach. Building on the previous episode about rebuilding confidence, she dives into how belief, visualization, embodim...
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42: Why Not Me? Rebuilding Confidence in Your Ability to Achieve Your Goals
Why Not Me? Rebuilding Confidence in Your Ability to Achieve Your GoalsMany of us carry the weight of past goal attempts — abandoned plans, broken promises to ourselves, and quiet self-doubt. If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at go...
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41. Pause For Progress: How I Achieved Work, Family and Health Goals In 2025
Episode 41: Pause for Progress: How I Achieved Work, Family, and Health Goals in 2025After a 15-month break, Claudia is back! In this episode, she shares her journey of juggling health, family, and business goals while pr...
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40. The key to flourish as a working mum: stop feeling overwhelmed, guilty and not good enough
In this episode of the Empowered By Claudia podcast, host Claudia is joined by Carly Hopwood of Sajer Group. Carly is a Work-Life Coach and has an unorthodox take on the concept of work-life balance... in that she doesn't believe it truly exist...
38. Practical Guide 3: How Can I Overcome Fear of Change?
As part of the celebrations of the first birthday of this podcast, Claudia has collated a series of Practical Guide episodes, drawing on her own experiences as a coach and fear of success instructor but also from the knowledge shared by the gue...
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37. Practical Guide 2: What Is Stopping Me from Experiencing Wellness?
As part of the celebrations of the first birthday of this podcast, Claudia has collated a series of Practical Guide episodes, drawing on her own experiences as a coach and fear of success instructor but also from the knowledge shared by the gue...
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36. Practical Guide 1: What Wellness Means To Me
As part of the celebrations of the first birthday of this podcast, Claudia has collated a series of Practical Guide episodes, drawing on her own experiences as a coach and fear of success instructor but also from the knowledge shared by the gue...
35. Emotional Eating Is Not Your Fault: How to Change your Relationship with Food for Good
Featuring Madeline KarlssonIn this episode of the Empowered by Claudia podcast, host Claudia delves into emotional eating and gut health with guest Madeline Karlsson, an integrative nutrition and health coach. Madeline shares her ...
34. Cyclical wisdom: Embracing menstrual, lunar and seasonal cycles to prevent burnout and harness your inner power
Welcome to a slightly different episode of the Empowered By Claudia Podcast. Today's episode is actually me being interviewed by Rachel Teeling, host of the Healing with Teeling podcast. I wanted to share this episode with you as I know y...
33. Celebrating One Year of Empowered By Claudia: Reflecting, Reframing and Moving Forward
Join Claudia as she reflects on the first year of the Empowered By Claudia Podcast. Reviewing past guest expert episodes and her solo episodes and also the process of setting up this podcast for you to enjoy.We get a glimpse of all the ...
32. Feng Shui Tips for Business Success: Workspace Strategies for Your Home or Office
Today we welcome back the wonderful Chrissie, Feng Shui Consultant and Interior Designer from Feng Shui Life Styled. Our topic for today is about how to Feng Shui our workspace, whether that is a corner of the kitchen table, bedroo...
31. What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
In today's episode of the Empowered By Claudia podcast, Claudia discussed a recent opportunity that she volunteered herself for that had a really positive result.It prompted her to record this unplanned episode encouraging you to leave ...
30. Are you ready for love? Avoid dating disasters with Rachel's top tips
Join us for another episode of the Empowered By Claudia Podcast where we are joined by returning guest (from episode 3) Rachel Teeling. Rachel is a dating and self-worth coach and she shares with us lots of tips on:Grie...